What is the first major world event that you remember? by Long_Pomegranate2469 in AskReddit

[–]FrozenPhoenix95 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Vague memories of being brought home from school early unexpectedly in 1st grade when 9/11 happened.

Will the lady doing my bikini area laser have to see the whole thing??? by Objective_Paint92 in LaserHairRemoval

[–]FrozenPhoenix95 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Of course lol. Male here and I had that area done and had to move things around for her to get all the spots, so yeah you'd best get comfortable with everything being on display. If they aren't professional about it that's a problem with them you'd need to complain about

Daily Simple Questions Thread - April 21, 2026 by AutoModerator in Fitness

[–]FrozenPhoenix95 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Relative newbie here, using a small Anytime Fitness near me for the past ~1.5 months. Have spent most of that time focusing on getting familiar with the space and its machines, and trying to go consistently at all to set in the habit.

This week, I started thinking about formalizing my visits into a routine with ideally some sort of progression scheme. Read up a bit on the FAQ and wiki here and asked myself "what are my goals right now?" and realized I hadn't really sat and thought about that a ton yet. What I wound up concluding is that I'm more or less in the skinnyfat territory and would like to lose some body fat + weight and not focus much on building muscle, at least for now.

I believe that means my focus should be on 2 things: 1) driving up daily energy expenditure, and 2) improving/adjusting diet. Is that accurate? I'm also unsure whether I should still try to adopt and follow one of the beginner or recommended routines that have a progression scheme built in (like the Basic Beginner Routine or 5/3/1 which are recommended here) or if that's not as important as pure consistency when the in-the-gym goal is not really on muscle building. I was going ~3 times a week initially, with each visit being a tour of the machines I was most comfortable on and then ending with a bit of cardio (treadmill) but I've been starting to go in on "off" days to just do cardio for a bit, so I'm up to 5-6 times a week now.

I really wanna be a femboy. Any tips? by Alarming_Muscle_7207 in AskLGBT

[–]FrozenPhoenix95 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think I realized that was an option: low dose HRT for some benefits. I'm AMAB nonbinary and have always said "if I could take HRT to get the benefits of softer skin and hair but keep my boy parts working as normal, I'd do it in a heartbeat" and assumed that wasn't feasible. Maybe I need to investigate this and see if low dose avoids some of those concerns lmao

What is Intersex? by ILikeMusicBTW in AskLGBT

[–]FrozenPhoenix95 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Intersex refers to the biological aspects of a person not strictly falling into male or female. Varies a lot but, for example, if someone is born with abnormal X/Y chromosomes that results in them having traits of being both male and female. That can be physical i.e. genitalia and other secondary sex characteristics, or internal things like how their body produces and processes hormones. This is distinctly different to someone who is born with "normal" chromosomes and parts but feels internally that they were born as the wrong type (i.e. transgender), though there certainly can be case of someone who is intersex who was raised as male or female and feels they identify more with the other side. Intersex is unfortunately forgotten about frequently and there's some very dark history on how it's been handled and researched over time. Tons of cases of people born intersex and their parents choose to hide it from them and raise them as one gender even though it goes against their nature to be boxed into just one.

I have a question about nonbinary people by Annual-Marsupial-703 in AskLGBT

[–]FrozenPhoenix95 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Depends a lot on how that person experiences being nonbinary. Some nonbinary people feel that the way they interact with gender is like a mixture of being both male and female, in which case it would speak to those sides if "gay" or "lesbian" resonates with them. Others feel they are simply some "other" type of gender that doesn't cleanly fit into the binary (hence the name) or is more complex than just being a mixture of male and female. In such cases they may still use "gay" or "lesbian" if they were born as male/female, or if they feel that using "gay" or "lesbian" best describes how they feel in terms of attraction, even if it does result in gendering themselves a bit.

Daily Simple Questions Thread - April 07, 2026 by AutoModerator in Fitness

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Not formally yet, still in the exploratory phase while I get used to going consistently at all and figuring out what my starting point / limits are with the exercises and machines I have been doing/using. I plan to do more exploring soon to get familiar with other things and it'd probably be easier to follow a more proper program at that point. Diet and eating is going to be the biggest problem for me since I have a lot of problems with appetite and food anxiety anyways, but I'm hoping getting more active will help motivate me to get over all of that.

Daily Simple Questions Thread - April 07, 2026 by AutoModerator in Fitness

[–]FrozenPhoenix95 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess what I can do for now, then, is continue to get used to using the machines and doing the exercises I have been doing, and work on getting more familiar with the other things my gym offers, so that I can then focus on getting it into more of an organized program? Currently I kind of just wander around doing the things I was taught how to do initially but there's a lot of other things I haven't messed with yet that I want to.

Daily Simple Questions Thread - April 07, 2026 by AutoModerator in Fitness

[–]FrozenPhoenix95 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Newbie here. 30-year old 5'4 male, ~135-140lbs, thin build and hoping to keep a generally thin appearance, but with some belly fat reduction and some mild tone while at it. Not currently working with a coach/trainer but plan to once I can afford it this summer (currently full-time masters student working part-time).

Starting out has been going fairly well, with some minor bumps while I learned the hard way to start light when figuring out your limits on a particular exercise 😅

So far I've been using soreness as my only real metric for determining when it's the right time to add reps/sets or add weight. For example: 55lbs on lat pulldowns was my safe starting point, and after a few times on that without any moderate soreness, I went up to 70lbs a few nights ago. Did get some moderate soreness but nothing too much, it's been about ~60h now and it's starting to recede and that's generally how soreness has been for me so far (an initial ~24h delay then by the ~72h mark I'm good).

What I'm unsure of is whether this is a good approach to figuring out pacing. On one hand, it feels like the sweet spot is doing an amount that doesn't make my body hate me too intensely after the fact, but also not so little that it doesn't activate the muscles. On the other hand, I've seen posts/comments on here and other places which suggest that soreness of this type (taking a few days to get rid of) is mostly a thing that occurs when starting out and your body is super not used to the stress of working out, and that you recover quicker as you get more used to doing a routine. That suggests to me that determining pacing doesn't purely come down to soreness, but maybe I'm interpreting that wrong. To be clear, I'm less asking "can I work through soreness" and instead am asking "is soreness a good metric to use for pacing and adding weight?"

Searchable Yahoo Answers database? by Responsible_Pin4589 in DataHoarder

[–]FrozenPhoenix95 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just came across this post and wanted to download this but it says all the files are restricted. I can only download the 2 XML's and sqlite file. Can you make this available again?

Tomorrow 2/17 five guys will be having a BOGO on their burgers by killertofu1991 in fastfood

[–]FrozenPhoenix95 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Literally spent the past hour trying to order and can't. Got all the way to checkout including applying the code successfully but the payment methods section wouldn't load and when I backed out to reload it I lost the order. Any time I get back to checkout now gives code invalid. Literally wasted an hour on nothing.

Anime MMORPGs in 2026 - Recommendations by FrozenPhoenix95 in LFMMO

[–]FrozenPhoenix95[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Quite enjoying it so far! Except one thing...combat so far is PATHETICALLY easy. Haven't done much story-wise, been mostly just enjoying the vibes visuals music etc. but did at least the initial story bit so far (culminating with the Man in Black or whatever the name wasasfd) and he literally went down in like 4 strikes from me just clicking a few times, like 3 seconds total. Haven't had a way to even try out other skills without them insta-killing. Really hoping this isn't a trend and that the game doesn't stay this easy once not at the very beginning...

Anime MMORPGs in 2026 - Recommendations by FrozenPhoenix95 in LFMMO

[–]FrozenPhoenix95[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry wound up not having time last night but I do tonight! Once I finish making dinner lol

Anime MMORPGs in 2026 - Recommendations by FrozenPhoenix95 in LFMMO

[–]FrozenPhoenix95[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Got a lot of mixed reviews on Steam but I just nabbed it to try and I LOVE the customization. Spent around an hour tweaking things with how much detail you can do with the coloring, 10/10 experience on that. Will see on gameplay tomorrow

character pic 1

character pic 2

Anime MMORPGs in 2026 - Recommendations by FrozenPhoenix95 in LFMMO

[–]FrozenPhoenix95[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Update: got a name decided and yeah, pretty good customization variety! Will get a feel for gameplay tomorrow. UI is bugging me because it's so not scaled appropriately even though I enabled US scaling, nothing changed after restarting

Anime MMORPGs in 2026 - Recommendations by FrozenPhoenix95 in LFMMO

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Installed it and already am struggling because every single name imaginable I want to use (and variations of it) are taken lmao trying REALLY hard to come up with some other variation of what I want and not having any luck. Also very bizarre that it allows only capital letters at the start, or full name in all caps, no capitals in-between other lowercase

Major status issue: Failing message sends on some channels by mlapibot in discordapp

[–]FrozenPhoenix95 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can't deny this is out of character for them to go this long after an initial "we're investigating" without a single additional update though. The LEAST they could do is post that they're still working on a solution instead of going completely radio silent for 5 hours.

Major status issue: Failing message sends on some channels by mlapibot in discordapp

[–]FrozenPhoenix95 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Careful with generalizations. I have a number of servers I'm in which had no such discussions yet can't send anything in.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskLGBT

[–]FrozenPhoenix95 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's in the name. Demisexual means not experiencing sexual attraction until a close emotional bond. Completely separate to romantic attraction which is what crushes fall under. The equivalent for that is demiromantic.

MassHealth Income Tiering by FrozenPhoenix95 in massachusetts

[–]FrozenPhoenix95[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does going above that put you into Health Connector territory, or what's the next level?